In terms of external authentication, we need Extension:OpenID to catch up to 
the OpenID standard in order to do that.

In terms of two-factor, I have like eight patches for Extension:OATHAuth 
attempting to make it production-worthy.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/132783
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From: svetlana <[email protected]>
Reply: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]>>
Date: August 6, 2014 at 7:57:12
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>>
Subject:  Re: [Wikitech-l] News about stolen Internet credentials; reducing 
Wikimedia reliance on usernames and passwords  

On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, at 21:49, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 22:05 -0700, Pine W wrote:
> > After reading this [1] I am wondering if Wikimedia should start taking
> > steps to reduce reliance on usernames and passwords.
>  
> What "steps" do you refer to, or is this intentionally vague?
> Disallowing usernames and logins?
> Two-step authentication/verification?
> Something else?
>  
> andre

from what i could read and parse:
use less of external things like skype and google accounts
so that there is only 1 username for everything

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